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%SIEGE PARANOIA FEAR MENTALITY CONTENTIOUS EVIL GOD+000906
%CONFLICT RESOLUTION DOMINATION SYSTEM GENOCIDE WAR+000906
 %SIN ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT DOUBLE BINDS HOPELESS+000906
   %FORTRESS BATTLEMENTS MOAT WALLS CRACKED EGG EGO 000906
                                                          
     It  is dangerous to encourage any group of people  to
adopt or slip into a siege mentality where paranoia on the
part  of some leaders becomes normative for all members of
an  organized group.   The community as a whole  is  under
threat when any significant sub-community perceives itself
to be under siege due to:                                 
                                                          
     1.  Mental  illness  on the part of key  leaders  ---
which   is  not  graciously  recognized  and  treated   in
appropriate ways.                                         
                                                          
     2.  The   evolution  within  any   significant   sub-
community  ---  of   a  cosmological/mythological   system
within   which     the     significant     sub-community's
meaning,  significance,     and  reason-to-be pertain   to
unresolved conflict between it and the larger community.  
                                                          
     3.  The  presence  within  the  larger  community  of
significant   efforts  to  eliminate  the  powers   and/or
presence    of   the  significant  sub-community;    i.e.,
efforts to achieve a genocide.                            
                                                          
     4.  The  absence  within  the  larger  community   of
respect,  tolerance,  and love towards the members/culture
of the significant sub-community.                         
                                                          
     5.  The  presence  within  the  larger  community  of
domineering people who focus upon and/or victimize members
of the significant sub-community.                         
                                                          
     A  siege  mentality  is  engendered  when  any  group
adopts  the  attitude/belief  that  some  ideal,    value,
principle, idea,  attitude,  belief,  group,  or manner of
self expression must be eliminated,  repressed, suppressed
or kept-out-of-consciousness.   The  adoption  of  such an
attitude/belief  by  any  group  often engenders  a  siege
mentality   in   opposition  ---    leading  to   ultimate
confrontations and conflicts.   A  siege mentality evolves
when there are fears of extinction,   liquidation,  and or
annihilation.   People rarely behave prudently,  wisely or
temperately  when  siege  mentalities    echo   back   and
forth ---  and  behaviors   are dominated  by   individual
and   corporate  forms   of   mental  illnesses  such   as
paranoia, mania and depression.                           
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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